At least this article gets it right in identifying this as an industry-wide problem instead of narrowing responsibility to a single company. I can only attribute this to the fact that this article was written by an HR professional instead of a journalist, who often confuse cause and effect according to their own personal biases and agendas.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-ge...

Correctly identifying this as an industry-wide problem means that all HR departments get appropriate scrutiny instead of focusing scrutiny on one specific HR department, which has the unfortunate effect of causing society to ignore problems that exist in practically all HR departments.